Leonardo da Vinci - Pocket Notebook Mona Lisa (c. 1503)

About Leonardo da Vinci - Pocket Notebook Mona Lisa (c. 1503)

This beautiful Fridolin pocket notebook features the Italian High-Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci's work "Portrait of Lisa Gherardini" known as the "Mona Lisa". Currently, on display at the Louvre Museum, Leonardo’s Mona Lisa is the world’s most famous portrait and one of the History of Art’s most popular works, identified by the art historian Giorgio Vasari as Lisa di Antonio Maria Gherardini, wife of a wealthy Florentine merchant, Francesco del Giocondo. The uniqueness of Leonardo’s Mona Lisa resides in the lack of jewelry or lavish attributes that would identify the sitter as an aristocratic woman. Although Renaissance etiquette dictated women must never look directly into a man’s eye, Leonardo masterfully empowers the sitter with a self-assuring gaze immediately directed at the viewer. The Mona Lisa is represented sitting at a logia, in front of a mysterious uninhabited landscape through which the viewer evidences Leonardo’s fascination with atmospheric perspective and his traditional use of sfumato which influenced artists for generations after him. This hardcover pocket notebook includes 128 blank pages, an elastic bookmark, and an inside pocket; perfect to carry and write incoming ideas.